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A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. Alternate version.

The jungle animals and creatures have all come to the point where they are living together in peace and harmony, thanks to the efforts of the great Mighty Mouse. But the peace is broken when the buzzards attack a helpless baby hippo. The super hero is kept busy fighting off the attacks of the sneaky buzzards while also catering to the needs and whims of the hippo. Finally, after the attackers are vanquished, all the animal parents leave their babies with Mighty Mouse as their baby-sitter.

The film tells of the adventures of Prince Padam who is fascinated with discovering the mysteries of outer space. He falls in love with a beautiful maiden from the moon and travels in a rocket to the moon to bring his lady love back to earth

Casper the Friendly Ghost goes out to find some friends to come to his birthday party.

An early 3D ballet short from UK

Youth without families and perspectives still wander Germany five years after the war ended. "Back to Life" shows some of the efforts to reintegrate them into society.

Made in 1957, this zany movie is like a lighthearted recap of Un Chien Andalou. Adam is a vegetarian, and sits there sucking grapes or watching television, but Eve is a flesh-eater and, with amiable ferocity, is determined to overcome the stout defence of his sexual innocence which he wages with every gimmick and gadget he can lay his hands on, including such unusual weapons as egg-whisks, broomsticks, and wheelbarrows. What it says about modern marriage has been said, in Hollywood movies, by Jerry Lewis and others, in more circumspect terms, but the very intensity of derision is quite enough to vex our dear censor and elevate this movie to the spiritual heights of the underground.

Unfinished, 16mm, b&w silent film directed by Maya Deren. No copy of this film exists

Created in 1954 by the Shell Oil Company, "Proud Ships" was directed by Philip Armitage. Across and around the world from oilfields to refineries and from refineries to consumers, oil tankers carry crude oil and its refined products. Proud Ships is the story of the tankers and the men who sail in them. It shows the full scale of their world-wide operations, the scope and magnitude of the tanker business and the orderly control of movements and cargoes. The film is also the story of a voyage of one tanker - "The Liparus". From her master and crew members we learn the life and work of a tanker at sea.

The four periods of growing up, from birth to age 20, are highlighted in this training film about learning how to accept help from others.

THe life and work of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelty are vividly recalled in this Pictorial Films production through a moving photographic study of his home. All the things and places pertinent to FDR at Hyde Park, New York are shown in the film , handsomely and reverently directed and photographed by Jullian Roffman. Accompanying the pictorial record is a commentary by Norman Rose and some excellent music composed and conducted by Irving Landau.

An overview of the art collection of Richard Winther.

Italian version of the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest

Margaret Conneely was active in amateur filmmaking locally and internationally for nearly half a century, first joining a local Chicago camera club in 1949. Her son, John, stars in Saga of the First and Last, a short film about a boy, a gun and his first (and last) cigarette.

Documentary

Hard to Windward is a 1957 Australian documentary film following a boat during the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

This film was made by the Eamses on a weeks notice for a local Los Angeles TV show where jazz musicians improvised to the images live. The music that overlays the released edition is specifically recorded for that edition.

This film traces the story of Egypt from the prehistoric period to the time of the Ptolemies, focusing on the Nile, temples, pyramids and the Sphinx. Here, Garner showcases a single shot of ruins as light and dark as clouds pass, a signature of his. The filmmaker waxes poetic in this statement: "For Egypt is a monument, not to the conqueror or statesman, but to the artist, the architect, the painter, the sculptor, whose works will remain in the minds of men, when pomp and ceremony are but whispering echoes in the corridors of time."

A Walt Disney cartoon anthology

Mexican feature film

Union Pacific paid tribute to its Big Boys in a publicity film that has become a sought-out collector"s item for rail enthusiasts worldwide. You"ll see the evolution of UP steam power from 4-6-0s to the development of the articulated locomotive. Then you"ll meet the Big Boys and watch as they are serviced, rebuilt, and run. Trackside and cab shots feature these mighty 4-8-8-4s pulling long freights over Wyoming"s Sherman Hill during their last years in service. This classic film is one you"ll enjoy watching again and again.

The film looks into the meaning of various forms of conduct in children from six to nine years and suggests ways in which parents may guide them through a challenging, often trying phase of development. In a family with three children we observe how the parents cope with often baffling situations

The excitement of making this crime caper is clearly seen in the acting of these kids from a village junior school, as they chase the robbers across fields overlooking the Dales. A little tale of thieves getting their comeuppance and their captors their just reward, starring young children from a West Yorkshire junior school, giving wonderful performances as they gang up to trap the bank robbers. A moral lesson they probably needed; and a real insight into the imaginary mindset of Dixon of Dock Green Britain. Mention bank robbers now and you’re as likely to think of bankers receiving bizarre bonuses than robbers of the traditional 1950s kind.

Story of a letter written by a Welsh boy to a friend in Australia.

Short documentary about the march from Aldermaston to London in 1959, and the perils of nuclear weapons.

A baseball team in desperate need for a star player drafts a horse.

The city-slicker mouse, Herman, takes his bumpkin country cousins for a night on the town at a penny arcade. Katnip the cat, Herman's long-time nemesis, is present and spoiling the party so Herman floats him away with some hydrogen-filled balloons. But the pesky Katnip returns and after some furious cat-and-mouse games, utilizing all the slot machines and games in the arcade, Katnip ends up as the loser, ending up as the target in the shooting gallery.

A tour of sports played in the Caribbean in Puerto Rico and Jamaica. An airplane fly's over Puerto Rico. HA El Moro on San Juan Bay. Watch men playing golf on course in El Moro fort. Shots of water ski-ing and a baseball game in large stadium. Girls play softball, basketball team of University of Puerto Rico practice, men playing tennis. Horsemanship people riding Paco Fino horses. Street scenes of British Jamaica, policemen directing traffic. At racetrack, horses racing, polo and soccer games, shots of paople rafting down a river. Various shots in Montego Bay, beach, a rowboat with glass window in bottom, shots thru window, sailboat racing, fishing. Various, young boy catching a fish, man fighting marlin on line and marlin brought on board, shark gets away, flags run up to signal two catches, two marlin hung out displayed.

Documentary from British Transport Films

The Juggler of Our Lady is an animated film by Les Novros, produced by Cavalcade Pictures in 1957. The film was submitted as a possible nominee for the 1958 Oscars and was shown at the Stratford International Film Festival in 1960, but no copy of the film is known to exist.

The sea, with its storms, which break and break the waves against the sharp rocks, is the fulcrum of the life of the people of Gallura in Sardinia, where nature exerts an indisputable predominance and penetrates human activities.

This way madness - or experimental filmmaking - lies. A solitary man in coat and tie enters an apartment. It's midnight. He appears agitated and distraught. He throws a glass of water in his face and laughs. He takes off the coat and tie. His moods swing. He stares at a light bulb. He removes his shirt. He lights a cigarette. He looks at a book. He does something drastic and self-destructive. He opens doors to a garden.

American Industrial Film giving an overview of the inner workings of a diesel engine.

The erasure of Native storytelling and beliefs is told through the archetype of the crying or dispossessed Indian.

An animation by Dion Vigne

An American goes to work in the booming oil industry of Venuzuela.

Footage shot for Cornell by Rudy Burckhardt in December 1955 of a woman buying chestnuts from a street vendor and watching people and birds in a city square.

Film starring Jamuna, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao and Nageswara Rao R.

The story of America as a land of trains, showing how the tracks, stations, and trainmen, as well as the freight and passenger trains are all a part of an important industry.

Documentary on Gibraltar.

A Terrytoons cartoons with Dimwit the dog

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Story follows a student (Tom Graeff) as he worries and wonders what joining a fraternity is all about. Cameo by Joe E. Brown, who gives a speech to the frat boys.

Experimental color (two-tone) animated film with a musical score.

Jordan Belson’s pure meditation on space: fluid and unfixed, where forms become free abstractions in motion (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive).

An Australian soldier of the Royal Australian Regiment presents his story of the Korean War. On his way to Korea, he visits Tokyo, where he notes the progress since the end or world War II. Then he travels to Seoul in Korea, were he notes the damage to the city. Finally soldiers are see relaxing in camp and training for the conflict to come.

This RKO Screenliner describes life at the Columbus Boychoir School at Princeton, New Jersey, where all students excel in singing as well as in academic studies, and includes songs sung by the sixty-boy choir.

"Eisenstein journeyed to Mexico in late 1930 to begin shooting a film. With backing provided by Upton and Mary Craig Sinclair, the great Soviet auteur planned to make an epoch-spanning pageant of Mexico’s political history and cultural iconography, moving from the pre-Columbian era through colonization and, finally, revolution ... with the project running over budget the film was shut down. Sinclair eventually deposited the film materials at MoMA in 1953, at which point the scholar Jay Leyda assembled and annotated the shots, ordering them according to the filmmaker’s plans and presenting the images just as they had been shot, unedited ... here one is given the opportunity to attend to Eisenstein in an entirely different way, and aspects that might otherwise be overshadowed come to the fore: the way he works with nonprofessional actors, for example, or the striking mise-en-scène." - MoMA

A compilation film of 3 episodes of the television series "The Vise":- (i) "Cruel Test" (ii) "Death on the Boards" and (iii) "The Fair and The Fallen"

This short film presented by the Reynolds Metals Company details how aluminum is manufactured and illustrates the seemingly endless uses of this versatile product.

1957 Jim Davis short

The minutiae of daily life on Edinburgh's Rose Street in the fifties is presented in this impressionistic documentary piece.

A 1955 experimental film directed by Jim Davis.

The dangers of carelessness and inattention are dramatized by the case of poor little Jimmy, who has been having a tough day. Because of his carelessnss and inattention, he runs into a tree, steps on a nail, flies a kite in a rainstorm, and digs a cave in a hillside, which promptly collapses on him.

Uses demonstrations in humorous animation to explain the elements of cartooning.

Visualizes traffic problems and cites statistics concerning these problems. Suggests three major considerations in the reduction of traffic problems: engineering, education, and enforcement. Emphasizes the traffic court judge's responsibility in enforcement and discusses how a judge can most effectively deal with each case so that people will leave the courtroom with respect for law courts and an awareness of their responsibilities toward observing the rules of the road.

Documentary on the railroads that drive the nation written and produced by Jackson Pokress.

Civil Defense Film on DVD. Enjoy the wonderful vintage animation used to illustrate the manner in which radioactive particles penetrate all manner of objects. Step back in time and gain perspective on how people were instructed to conduct themselves in the event of a nuclear attack. Watch as the use of a geiger counter is demonstrated for the purposes of determining radiation levels. Originally commissioned in 1950 by The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, 'The Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation' is an important part of world history. Great for home-schoolers or in the classroom! Arrange a viewing for students and use this film as a tool to begin a discussion regarding these new concerns during the dawn of the nuclear age.

This educational film from the 1950s instructs viewers how to prepare for a class report.

Bob Jackson wakes up with his pants hanging low. E.Z. Webster enters the apartment and Bob tells him that he can only afford to spend $5.00 but Webster insists on $7.50. E.Z. gets into a posing strap and is oiled up by Bob. Bob is wearing low slung briefs. E.Z. poses and Bob draws. When it comes time to pay Bob gets the money from the crotch of his briefs but it is not the full amount expected. Wrestling ensues. E.Z. showers to clean up and comes back to Bob to pull off his towel and poses nude. An undressing scene shown in reverse is used to get E.Z. dressed again. At the door, the two agree to meet again the next day. Flashes to suggestive nude pictures accompany scenes of the two men in similar poses.